{"id":3296,"date":"2014-10-18T09:23:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T14:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2014-10-18T09:23:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T14:23:51","slug":"senegal-is-now-ebola-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/senegal-is-now-ebola-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal is now Ebola-free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On Friday, October 17, the World Health Organization declared that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/mediacentre\/news\/ebola\/17-october-2014\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Senegal is now free of Ebola virus transmission<\/a><\/span>. Senegal had a single case of Ebola in late August. All those who contacted the patient have now completed the 21-day monitoring period are are symptom free and tested negative for the virus. A similar announcement about Nigeria is expected <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_777251375\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Monday<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Our colleagues at the SMC UK have collected comments on this and other issues related to Ebola. If you want a copy of these or if you need any other assistance covering Ebola, just give us a call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, October 17, the World Health Organization declared that Senegal is now free of Ebola virus transmission. Senegal had a single case of Ebola in late August. All those who contacted the patient have now completed the 21-day monitoring period are are symptom free and tested negative for the virus. A similar announcement about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2233,51,53,476],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-ebola","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Ra","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3297,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions\/3297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}